For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...

Celebrate the end of our Winter Weeks season with a live, interactive experience! Explore the properties of the three states of matter--solids, liquids, and gasses--in this phase-changing, ...

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Ah, yes, the three states of matter: Solids, liquids, and gases. What a simple way to understand our physical world. Of course, if you remember a bit of high school science, you probably recall a ...

In middle and high school, most people learn about the three states of matter we interact with in our everyday lives: solid, liquid and gas. Some students may have even been introduced to the idea of ...

We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower. Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to ...